INDECENT PROPOSAL
A/N: Hello dear readers! Here I come with another Sess/Kagu fanfic! Hope you'll enjoy it.
Summary:AU For one million dollars would you bear the heir of the handsome, rich, conceited and all around unbearably annoying silver haired head of the Tashio Bank? That's the question Kagura is faced with. Rated M for language and citrus. Sess/Kagu with a little IY/K.
Chapter 1: Quests
Disclaimer: If I owned Inuyasha, the story would have ended so differently…
"Speaking"
'Thinking'
"Okay, how about this outfit?" A very anxious Kagura asked her best friend and roommate Kagome.
"I don't know. Don't you have something that might look more professional? More 'give me some money so I can start up my restaurant type of thing'?" Kagome asked with a small smile.
"Yeah well, let's not forget that our dear banker Miroku is a real pervert, so maybe I should wear the dress after all?" The red eyed beauty added with a wink, as she took out a red dress with a deep cleavage from her closet and set it on the bed next to Kagome.
"Maybe not…" Kagome retorted after seeing the cleavage of the dress. "Wait I'll go look in my closet if I can find something".
While waiting for Kagome to come back, Kagura went to put on some make up. She was not the type of girl to put tons of make up on, so it only took her a second to faintly apply some eye shadow and her trademark cherry red lipstick.
By the time she stepped back in the room, she saw that to her horror that Kagome had laid her favorite green mini skirt on the bed, coupled with a simple white shirt.
"Kags, sorry but I can't wear that" exclaimed Kagura.
The skirt was small, but considering that Kagura was taller than Kagome, let's just say that it would not leave much to the imagination.
"Besides didn't you say I needed something professional? After all I'm going to ask the bank for a loan not to give Miroku a lap dance!" the demoness added furrowing her brows.
"Fine fine, I get it. Just wear your damn red dress if you want to!" Kagome retorted.
"Hey don't scream at me! It's not my fault I have to go ask for the loan! " Then as she realized why Kagome just had an outburst, Kagura smiled mischievously and said "You know, if you want to see a certain Mr Inuyasha Tashio you can always come with me at the bank."
The younger of the two friends blushed furiously and stuttered "no..it's not..we're not…I'm not…"
"Oh please spare me. If only you could find an excuse to see your banker every day…"
"Stop it Kagura. Inuyasha was very nice and helped mama a lot when the shrine's finances were not so good" Kagome said with a small pout.
"Fine I'll stop teasing you" the older of the two friends said as she started to dress.
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Sesshomarou Tashio was sitting behind his massive desk in his office at the top floor of the Tashio Bank's main office. He once more opened the folder his faithful Jaken had carefully put together.
Looking at the first profile he furrowed his brow and thought 'she's not pretty enough' he then tore the sheet of paper in two.
Looking at the next profile he thought 'this one is not even a full blooded demoness!' he then rolled the sheet of paper in a ball and threw it in the trash can.
Looking at the next profile he thought 'Pfft! You've got to be kidding me! Her hobby is knitting! As if I'd want my son to be some softy. No, I need a fearless and fiery woman, someone with character and strength.
Taking yet another profile out of the folder Sesshomarou thought 'a cat demoness. Never! What was Jaken thinking? It's as if he picked exactly the women I would never be attracted to! Maybe I should just give up on the idea of finding a suitable woman. But that would mean giving up on fulfilling the promise and that would be unacceptable.'
As he was about to read the next profile which featured a fire demoness, his phone rang. It was none other than his annoying secretary Touran
"Mr. Tashio, your next appointment is here". She purred, in a voice she thought was extremely sexy, but that unfortunately for her Sesshomarou could not stand.
"I thought I told you to cancel all appointments for this morning? Are you not capable of following such a simple task?" he asked on his cold tone.
"My apologies sir, but you said you would take your friend Miroku Houshi's appointments for today".
Flashback
"Hey Sess. Here's the deal I need you to do something for me." Inuyasha said as soon as he entered his older half brother's office.
"What now?" Sesshomarou answered, not glad to see his younger half sibling so early in the morning.
Inuyasha paid no attention to Sesshomarou's bad mood, and sat down on the large wood desk. "I need you to take Miroku's appointment for this morning".
"Pfft as if this Sesshomarou had time for such trivial things, as give banking advice to people. There is a reason why I am the boss." He said as he pushed Inuyasha with two fingers, to signal the half demon to get off his expansive desk.
Inuyasha forced himself not to roll his eyes, but he did get off the desk and said "come on, it's just these girls I know they want to ask for a loan. They have this business venture they want to present. Unfortunately I have another appointment that I can't move"
Sesshomarou stood still for a minute than finally slightly nodded.
Not even waiting for a verbal agreement, Inuyasha strode out of the room while saying "thanks Sessh man I owe you one!"
End of Flashback
Sesshomarou gritted his teeth as he remembered agreeing, but he simply retorted "Miroku is not my friend, but my younger half brother's."
He sighed deeply and thought 'I guess it can't be helped, but it's the last time I ever do a favor to Inuyasha!' Sesshomarou finally said to his secretary "send them in" and hung up the phone.
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Kagura hurried up out of her car to run in the bank. She had wasted precious minutes bickering with Kagome on what to wear and had ended up being late for her appointment with Miroku.
As she finally got in front of Miroku's office, she was shocked to find the door closed and a note saying 'Mr Houshi will be absent for the remainder of the day, as he broke his arm. His appointments of the day will be taken by Mr Tashio".
A still breathless Kagura (due to all the running) smiled brightly. It's not that Miroku did not do a good job as her banker, but he made her feel uncomfortable. He tended to look at her as if she was just a Christmas present ready to be unwrapped by a very eager little boy on Christmas day. But on the other hand she cursed because she told herself that had it been Kagome, Mr Inuyasha Tashio would have done anything to give them the loan they so desperately needed to start their business.
Kagura was so immersed in her own thoughts that she did not see nor feel the young panther demoness standing behind her.
"Can I help you?" the woman asked with annoyance hidden behind a bright fake smile plastered on her lips.
Kagura jolted at hearing her and said "geez, you scared the life out of me!" She then cleared her throat and said "actually I had an appointment with Miroku but…"
"Oh so you are Miss Kagewaki I take it? Mr Tashio has been waiting for you for" the light blue haired woman than looked at her watch and said "seven…no eight minutes. And he hates waiting".
"Oops, I guess I have to run to Inuyasha's office now" Kagura said as she started to walk off.
The unknown woman than let out a soft chuckle as she said pointing at the note pinned on the door of Miroku's office "Not this Mr Tashio, the other one." Seeing Kagura's clueless expression she added "Mr Sesshomarou Tashio"
Based on what little Kagura had heard about the man, she could only think of two words at this point 'Oh Shit!!'
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Sesshomarou only had two more profiles to go over, but he had no hope of finding the woman deserving of bearing him his son. He sighed heavily and closed the folder as he heard a soft knock of his office door, he simply said on an irritated tone "Enter".
He figured he had to consider himself lucky that Miroku only had one appointment in the morning. And thankfully Sesshomarou was only supposed to fill in for this one appointment, as Inuyasha would take care of the rest.
But as he saw a beautiful young woman enter with her head held high as if she owned the place, Sesshomarou had to mentally double check to see if his emotion less mask was still in place, or if he was smiling.
He watched with attention as the red eyed and black haired woman walked up to his desk. She was wearing a very tight black skirt, and a simple white shirt underneath which he could make out the outline of her bra.
As she stood in front of his desk, Sesshomarou heard her say "Hi I'm Kagura Kagewaki, I had an appointment with Miroku but looks like it's going to be you and me". She then smiled and extended her hand to him.
Sesshomarou looked at her cherry red lips while she was talking barely hearing what she was saying, he then looked down at her hand and simply said "you are late."
"Yeah sorry about that" she answered still waiting for him to shake her hand. Sesshomarou did no such thing, but said as if it was an after thought "sit" gesturing towards the leather sit facing his desk.
Kagura's smile did not disappear as she sat down. She then took out a folder from her purse and said "here are all the forms all filled in". She anxiously waited as Sesshomarou looked them over.
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Kagura bit her bottom lip and looked down at her entwined hands resting in her lap. She then looked up and studied Sesshomarou's face. The man was incredibly handsome, he just like Inuyasha had gold amber eyes and silver white hair, even if his were far more luscious looking. The man looked absorbed in his reading, but incredibly bored at the same time.
After a few minutes Sesshomarou lifted his head and said "you want to open a restaurant on…Shikon avenue? It is a very popular place"
"Yes, that's why we're so interested in the area" she said thinking 'duh, isn't it obvious?'
"By 'we' you mean you and Miss Kagome Higurashi?" he asked his face still buried in the folder.
'Who else? It's written right there isn't it?!' Kagura thought, but she simply nodded even if she was really getting tired of this man.
He then lifted his eyes and said "This Sesshomarou fails to see how this business venture could benefit the bank in any way. It is sure to be a failure. There are already a vast amount of restaurants in the area. Therefore your little idea here will be a total waste of time and money". To emphasize his point Sesshomarou than dropped the whole file into the trash can.
It took a second for Kagura to realize what he just did. But when it sunk in, she got up and knocked the chair she was sitting on in the process. That the guy refused to give them the money, that she could stomach, that he dared say that her and Kagome's idea was a waste of time, that she could not forget. And that he threw away the plan they had worked on for weeks that she could never forgive.
As her temper arouse, a strong gust of wind started knocking everything around in the office. She then screamed pointing her finger at Sesshomarou's chest:
"Why you narrow minded conceited jerk! Kags and I put a lot of time and effort in this proposal! And our idea is like none other! We want to create a traditional family owned and run restaurant where everyone can come along and have a good time together. And NO there isn't any other restaurant like this in the city. This restaurant has always been our dreams, since we've been kids!"
Kagura then breathed deeply before adding "If you don't want to, you don't have to give us the money, but don't come on your high horse thinking you're better than everyone just because your rich daddy gave you his company when he retired! Not everyone is born with a silver spoon in their mouth, some of us actually have to work their way up."
Sesshomarou had not even blinked as he watched the wind sorceress speak, once she shut her mouth to take her breath he said on his calm voice "are you done?"
"No I'm only starting! You know what you can stay there in your miserable lonely pathetic rich boy life! And I.. I .. I'm out of here!" and with that final outburst Kagura sent a powerful wind that sent all the papers' on Sesshomarou desk flying around. As she stomped out of the office, she sent him one last glance and was pleased beyond reason to see that his emotion less mask was gone, replaced by a look of complete surprise.
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As he watched the fiery wind sorceress march out of his office, Sesshomarou looked down at her nice backside trapped in her black skirt. He sat back in his leather chair and could not suppress a small smile as he thought 'I found her!'
A/N: So how was the first chapter? Loved it? Hated it? Tell me what you think. Next chapter will be named Set up.